--- title: Every year tens of millions of red crabs on Christmas Island walk fr… — Migration: the great journeys · tree and pragmatics description: Every year tens of millions of red crabs on Christmas Island walk from the forest to the sea to release their eggs, which hatch in the sea, timed with the rains and the Moon, and people close roads and build crab tunnels and bridges. Who acts: tens, eggs, people. A sentence of the lesson «Migration: --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Migration: the great journeys](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/) / 14 # Migration: the great journeys, sentence 14 Every year tens of millions of red crabs on Christmas Island walk from the forest to the sea to release their eggs, which hatch in the sea, timed with the rains and the Moon, and people close roads and build crab tunnels and bridges. **Who acts:** tens, eggs, people · **What happens:** walk, release, hatch, time, close, build · **To what, where:** forest, eggs, sea, roads, crab tunnels This is a sentence of the lesson «Migration: the great journeys» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tens, eggs, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:054-migration-the-great-journeys.lesson:14 # text = Every year tens of millions of red crabs on Christmas Island walk from the forest to the sea to release their eggs, which hatch in the sea, timed with the rains and the Moon, and people close roads and build crab tunnels and bridges. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 054-migration-the-great-journeys.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 release release VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 timed time VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl:relcl 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 rains rain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 close close VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 41 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 44 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 bridges bridge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 conj _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | present | tens of millions of red crabs on Christmas Island | | | the forest | year | to the sea *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result | | 2 | **release** | to-infinitive | tens of millions of red crabs on Christmas Island *not said here* | tens's eggs | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer egg=Source | | 3 | **hatch** | present | tens's eggs | | | the sea | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **time** | participle | tens's eggs *not said here* | | | | | with the rains and the Moon | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **close** | present | people | roads | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | | 6 | **build** | present | people *not said here* | crab tunnels and bridges | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tunnel=Product | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:054-migration-the-great-journeys.lesson:14`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Migration: the great journeys, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/13/) - next →: [Migration: the great journeys, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/54-migration-the-great-journeys/)